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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 14

Notice of Adoptions under Part IX of the Native Land Act, 1931

Tokerau Native Land Court Office,
Auckland, 16th February, 1945.

IT is hereby notified that the orders of adoption as set out in the Schedule hereunder have been made by the Native Land Court under the provisions of the Native Land Act, 1931.

J. H. ROBERTSON, Registrar.

Whakaaturanga Tamariki Whangai i raro o Wahi IX o te Ture Whenua Maori, 1931

Tari Kooti Whenua Maori, Tokerau,
Akarana, 16 o Pepuere, 1945.

HE whakaaturanga tenei kia mohiotia ai kua hangaia e te Kooti Whenua Maori i raro i nga tikanga o te Ture Whenua Maori, 1931, etahi ota whakamana i te tangohanga o etahi tamariki whangai, e whakaaturia nei e te Kupu Apiti i raro nei.

TE RAPIHANA, Kai-rehita.

SCHEDULE (KUPU APITI)

Declaration of Result of the Western Maori By-election, 1945

I, PAUL HUETT DUDSON, Returning Officer for the Western Maori Electoral District, do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on the 10th day of February, 1945, for the election of a member of Parliament for the said district to be as follows:—

Candidates. Votes polled.
Kaponga Erueti .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 93
Maharaia Winiata Piahana .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 452
Matiu Ratana .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4,697
Pehiriri Reweti .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 108
Pei te Hurinui Jones .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2,908
Reha Kau Hou .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 41
Rehe Paraone Rewi Maniapoto Amohanga .. .. .. .. .. 111
Tukumaru Roretana Tupaea (Richard Rolleston).. .. .. 371

Total number of valid votes polled .. .. .. .. .. .. 8,781
Number of votes rejected as informal .. .. .. .. .. .. 554

I therefore declare the said Matiu Ratana to be elected.

Dated at Wellington, this 21st day of February, 1945.

P. H. DUDSON, Returning Officer.

Excluding Land from the Hokianga Development Scheme

PURSUANT to subsection (2) of section 4 of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936, the Board of Native Affairs hereby revokes, so far as it affects the land described in the Schedule hereto, a certain notice dated the 28th day of March, 1938, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 26 of the 31st day of March of the same year at page 827, whereby the said land was, inter alia, declared to be subject to Part I of the Native Land Amendment Act, 1936, and such land is hereby excluded from the Hokianga Development Scheme.

SCHEDULE

ALL that area of land in the Tokerau Native Land Court District, containing 4 acres 2 roods 5 perches, more or less, called or known as Whirinaki 3B 8A, situate in Block I, Waoku Survey District.

Dated at Wellington this 15th day of February, 1945.

For and on behalf of the Board of Native Affairs—

G. P. SHEPHERD,
Under-Secretary of the Native Department.

(N.D. 1/1/2.)

Revocation of Notice under the Oil Fuel Emergency Regulations 1939 relating to the Sale of Motor-spirit

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on him by the Oil Fuel Emergency Regulations 1939, the Oil Fuel Controller does hereby revoke as from the 28th day of February, 1945, the notice relating to the sale or delivery of motor-spirit dated the 29th day of July, 1944, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 67 dated the 3rd day of August, 1944, at page 954.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of February, 1945.

G. L. LAURENSON, Oil Fuel Controller.

Price Order No. 318 (Milk) (Auckland Metropolitan Milk District)

PURSUANT to the powers conferred on it by the Control of Prices Emergency Regulations 1939,* the Price Tribunal, acting with the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, doth hereby make the following Price Order:—

PRELIMINARY

1. This Order may be cited as Price Order No. 318, and shall come into force on the 1st day of March, 1945.

2. In this Order—

“ Auckland Metropolitan Milk District ” means the Auckland Metropolitan Milk District constituted by the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Act, 1933 :

“ Commercial user ” means a person who buys milk or cream for sale for consumption, on his premises (whether in the form in which it is received by him or otherwise and whether separately or in combination with any other substance or substances) :

“ Consumer ” means a person who buys milk or cream for purposes other than resale :

“ Shop dairy ” means a shop where milk or cream is sold for consumption or use off the premises and not otherwise and where the milk or cream so sold is sold in the form in which it was received into the shop dairy.

APPLICATION OF THIS ORDER

3. (1) Nothing in this Order shall apply with respect to milk or cream sold to a Hospital Board for use in any institution under the control of that Board or to milk or cream sold for use in any separate institution within the meaning of the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1926.

(2) Except as provided in the last preceding subclause, this Order applies with respect to all milk and cream wherever produced that is sold—

(a) To the occupier of any shop dairy within the Auckland Metropolitan Milk District ; or

(b) By the occupier of a shop dairy or by any other person to a commercial user or to a consumer within the Auckland Metropolitan Milk District.

FIXING PRICES OF MILK AND CREAM TO WHICH THIS ORDER APPLIES

4. (1) Subject to the following provisions of this clause, the maximum price that may be charged or received for any milk or cream to which this Order applies shall be the appropriate price set out in the Schedule hereto.

(2) The prices fixed by this Order are fixed as for delivery as follows—

(a) In respect of milk or cream sold by the occupier of a shop dairy : As for delivery to the purchaser at the shop dairy :

(b) In respect of milk or cream sold otherwise than at a shop dairy : As for delivery at the premises of the purchaser : Provided that with respect to cream sold to a shipping company in accordance with the special provisions of the Schedule hereto, the price is fixed as for delivery to the appropriate wharf.

(3) Where the quantity of milk delivered to any one purchaser in any one day (exclusive of quantities delivered in measurements of half-pint or less) is not less than one gallon, the maximum price that may be charged shall be computed by reference to the total quantity of milk so delivered to the purchaser during that day.

(4) Where an account is rendered to any purchaser for milk supplied to him during a period comprising more than one day, the price that may be charged for the milk to which the account relates shall be computed as follows :—

(a) For all milk supplied in measurements of half-pint or less than half-pint, the price shall be computed separately at a rate not exceeding the appropriate rate fixed by this Order :

(b) If on any day within the period the quantity of milk supplied to the purchaser (exclusive of quantities delivered in measurements of half-pint or less) was not less than one gallon, the price of the milk so supplied shall be computed in accordance with subclause (3) hereof :

(c) For all other milk to which the account relates the price shall be computed at a rate not exceeding the appropriate rate fixed in the Schedule hereto for two pints.

• Statutory Regulations 1939, Serial number 1939/275, page 1057.